Archive for May, 2012

So… remember I told you this was going on? Spaniards alarmed by the dire state of their banks are squirreling money abroad at the fastest rate since records began, figures showed on Thursday, and the credit ratings of eight regions were cut. Spain is the next country in the firing line of the euro zone’s […]

OK, this isn’t perfect, I’m not the best artist, but here’s a basic concept of what I am thinking about doing for my canoe. The top illustration is just the canoe with the outriggers. The outriggers themselves are dirt simple to understand. I figure two long aluminum tubes front and back, with 90 degree elbow […]

Yeah, some of you probably saw it coming… Now that I own a canoe, I can’t help but contemplate how to improve canoeing in general. Back in my younger days I owned a bass boat, and so I never really spent much time in canoes. Every now and then I’d rent a canoe or use […]

Just got back home with my new Old Towne canoe. It’s a square-stern three-seater with a 750 pound capacity. Should be enough for me, the Cosmic Wife and one of the Cosmic Kids… I suppose the other one can just swim. Not sure why I waited so long to buy a canoe. I’ve wanted one […]

So, our fifteen year old labrador retriever is demonstrating signs of advanced age. She is losing the ability to walk and falls down frequently. I think she is mostly blind in one eye. She has several unsightly growths in various places on her body and she does little but eat, sleep, piss and shit. It’s […]

For the first time I am starting to see respected economic bloggers talking about the inevitable Euro breakup openly on their blogs. Up until last week all I ever saw were vague ominous portents along the lines of “the waters ahead are shallow and full of shoals, but the Eurozone is trying to plot a […]

Hmm… Well. Jury is still out. Between a lot of time spent at work, a date night watching “Battleship” and steady rain the last few days, I’ve only had a short time to test out the newly arrived pellet gun. Friday night I had just enough light left to take a dozen shots before putting […]

The Vetting – Exclusive – Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'. Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia […]

If you live in an arc from West Texas through parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California (as well as up into Washington I believe) you will have a good chance to view an annular solar eclipse Sunday evening. Annular eclipses are those where the moon’s apparent size is smaller than the sun’s apparent […]